Thatcher, Charles Robert

Thatcher, Charles RobertThatcher, Charles RobertCharles Robert Thatcher (* Bristol, England, 1831; † Shanghai, China, 1878) popular music singer-songwriter, actor, satirist. He was taught to play the flute as a boy, and from 1847 was employed in London in theatre orchestras. In 1852 he sailed for Australia, eager to try his luck in the Victorian goldfields. Finding the hard manual work of gold-digging physically difficult and unrewarding, he gained employment as a flautist at the Royal Victoria…